Site Security

SSL Certificate

Pages on www.thebeardemporium.com which request personal information, such as the checkout and your account page, are encrypted using a 256bit SSL certificate signed by Trustwave. You can verify that the page is secure by looking for a padlock icon in your browser’s address bar, as well as the url which starts with https:// instead of http://.

Here’s what you should be looking out for in the most common browsers.

Chrome:

Internet Explorer:

Firefox:

Safari:

To further protect yourself online, always make sure you’re using the most up to date version of whichever browser you use.

You can check on the validity of our SSL certificate by clicking on the Trustwave logo. This will confirm that your credit card and identity information is secure and that the company Simon Begg Ltd which trades as The Beard Emporium is a trusted business.

Your credit/debit card information.

We don’t store any of your card information on our servers, the details are transferred over a secure connection to Stripe, our payment provider.
Stripe handles secure payments for many large companies around the world including: The Guardian, Foursquare, Virgin Pure and Rackspace to name but a few. They process billions worth of transactions every year so you can be confident that your shopping experience is as safe as possible.
More information on Stripe can be found here – Stripe.com